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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2000-0941 in the critical feed json

Kootenay Web KW Whois 1.0 CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "whois" paramet…

published 2000-12-19 25 y ago modified 2026-09-23 46 d ago also EUVD-2000-0928

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.5%
EPSS 13.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Kootenay Web KW Whois 1.0 CGI program allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the "whois" parameter.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20370)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20370 Kootenay Web Inc whois 1.0 - Remote Command Execution remote, 2000-10-29
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1883 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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